Management 301 - Principles of Management

Overview of organizational behavior, operations management, and strategy/entrepreneurship. Topics include: Behavioral background of formal organizational life, organizational design, integrating factors in collective behavior, organizational change, systems analysis, techniques of decision making and control, the organization and its environment, and the nature of management theory. Topics grouped in modules of organizational behavior, operations management, and strategy/entrepreneurship. Prerequisite: junior standing.

Open to Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores in the Isenberg School of Management, Business Minor students, Contracting Departments-2, Resource Economics majors, Managerial Economics majors and STOCKSCH students. This class is being team taught this semester. The lead instructor is Professor Mzamo Mangaliso, the Chair of the Management Department. He will be joined by Maureen McGuinness, a Lecturer in the Management Department.

This course has reserved seating for Isenberg students, Business Minor students, Resource Economics students, Managerial Economics students, and Contracting Departments-2 (Building & Construction Technology students, STOCKSCH students, Nutrition students, and Economics Students). If you are unable to enroll in this class, the number of reserved seats for your major has been met. Please continue to monitor Spire for seat availability or add yourself to the Spire waitlist, if open.

Enrollment in this class is managed by the Isenberg Undergraduate Programs Office. Please do not contact the instructor with enrollment inquiries. Please direct questions to the Isenberg Undergraduate Programs Office at undergrad@isenberg.umass.edu.